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1930 · PDF PAGE 3

The Banned Lecture

… ” In order till Fust set his engine at work ! What trash will come flying from Jew, Moor and Turk. When, goosequill, thy reign o’er the world is abolished ? Goose—ominous name ! With a goose woe began : Quoth Huss—which means “ goose ” in his idiom un- polished— “ Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! ” Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)

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1930 · PDF PAGE 9

The Banned Lecture

…ages perform propitiatory rites, there and there only Christianity takes hold. But under the great systems of the civilised parts of the world, there is no trace of any such perversion in religious feeling. It is only the bloodthirsty and futile Jehovah who has achieved such monstrous births. Such upas-trees can only grow in the poisonous mire of fear and shame where thought has putrefied to Christianity. There is thus no antecedent improbability that Gilles de Rais (or any other person of that place and period) was addicted to black magical pr…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

The Banned Lecture

…em. You notice that even Charles Dickens—who may yet go down to history for having wished to prosecute Holman Hunt, of all people in the world, for painting indecent pictures—takes very much this popular view of medicine and pharmacy in Pickwick. I think, then, it is not altogether unfair to assume that Gilles de Rais was to a large extent the victim of Catholic logic. Catholic logic: and the foul wish- phantasms generated of its repressions, and of its fear and ignorance. He wanted to confer to a boon on humanity ; therefore he consorted with …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 13

The Banned Lecture

…dra manner, the Venetians gathered themselves in panic-stricken crowds in the Square of St. Mark and waited, howling, for the end of the world. It was accordingly easy enough to associate the pursuit of knowledge with the most abominable crimes, real or imaginary or both. For this reason, we hear—not as a demonstrated thesis, but as a commonplace of inherited knowledge—that Jews were sorcerers and wizards. In other words, they know something about grammar. We heard that they transformed themselves into cats or bats, and sucked people’s big toes…

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